Thoughts of a part time supporter

The top 5 Clubs in Scotland are now streets ahead of The Rest in terms of financial clout, quality of player pool, fan base and what the match day experience brings those attending games.
They have turned almost every away game into a home fixture and pretty much left the rest of the clubs behind, the gulf has never been bigger.
Dundee are in my view getting further behind some of The Rest on a few fronts the reasons for that are varied and complex. The most obvious factor for me is the continued failure of the Club to have something for the supporters to shout about on the park. That has taken its toll, the supporters are weary, no other club of a comparable size in Scotland has gone so long without having any success.
Whilst other Clubs look at ways and means of helping themselves make the best of things Dundees approach appears to be unique. They have gone for the one size fits all silver bullet solution where the current owners are promising a brand new state of the art stadium at a cost the Football Club can afford. The all eggs in one basket plan is not going well, repeated set backs with little no progress made in around eight years or so.
Trying to keep this as short and to the point as I can ……there are lots of other commendable things going on at some of the other small clubs in Scotland, the supporters groups appear to be more active, communication is better, fans feel a closer affiliation to club and there are various stand alone initiatives that make the ordinary punter feel part of something they can associate with and feel proud of.
It is not too late to have a rethink in my view, continue on the path they are on and ther is a danger irreparable damage is being done.
Who and more importantly when is someone anywhere close to having any influence going to say so ?

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Originally Posted by scottg

The top 5 Clubs in Scotland are now streets ahead of The Rest in terms of financial clout, quality of player pool, fan base and what the match day experience brings those attending games.
They have turned almost every away game into a home fixture and pretty much left the rest of the clubs behind, the gulf has never been bigger.
Dundee are in my view getting further behind some of The Rest on a few fronts the reasons for that are varied and complex. The most obvious factor for me is the continued failure of the Club to have something for the supporters to shout about on the park. That has taken its toll, the supporters are weary, no other club of a comparable size in Scotland has gone so long without having any success.
Whilst other Clubs look at ways and means of helping themselves make the best of things Dundees approach appears to be unique. They have gone for the one size fits all silver bullet solution where the current owners are promising a brand new state of the art stadium at a cost the Football Club can afford. The all eggs in one basket plan is not going well, repeated set backs with little no progress made in around eight years or so.
Trying to keep this as short and to the point as I can ……there are lots of other commendable things going on at some of the other small clubs in Scotland, the supporters groups appear to be more active, communication is better, fans feel a closer affiliation to club and there are various stand alone initiatives that make the ordinary punter feel part of something they can associate with and feel proud of.
It is not too late to have a rethink in my view, continue on the path they are on and ther is a danger irreparable damage is being done.
Who and more importantly when is someone anywhere close to having any influence going to say so ?

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Good post

There's a scene in the film "the day after tomorrow" where the guy from the Antarctic monitoring station is on the blower to the scientist trying to save the world

Scientist tells Antarctic man " save yourself"

Antarctic man opens a bottle of whisky and says " that time has come and gone my friend "

I am increasingly believing DFC time has " come and gone"....tipping point has been breached.

Anyway...

Sunshine 😎

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Originally Posted by scottg

The top 5 Clubs in Scotland are now streets ahead of The Rest in terms of financial clout, quality of player pool, fan base and what the match day experience brings those attending games.
They have turned almost every away game into a home fixture and pretty much left the rest of the clubs behind, the gulf has never been bigger.
Dundee are in my view getting further behind some of The Rest on a few fronts the reasons for that are varied and complex. The most obvious factor for me is the continued failure of the Club to have something for the supporters to shout about on the park. That has taken its toll, the supporters are weary, no other club of a comparable size in Scotland has gone so long without having any success.
Whilst other Clubs look at ways and means of helping themselves make the best of things Dundees approach appears to be unique. They have gone for the one size fits all silver bullet solution where the current owners are promising a brand new state of the art stadium at a cost the Football Club can afford. The all eggs in one basket plan is not going well, repeated set backs with little no progress made in around eight years or so.
Trying to keep this as short and to the point as I can ……there are lots of other commendable things going on at some of the other small clubs in Scotland, the supporters groups appear to be more active, communication is better, fans feel a closer affiliation to club and there are various stand alone initiatives that make the ordinary punter feel part of something they can associate with and feel proud of.
It is not too late to have a rethink in my view, continue on the path they are on and ther is a danger irreparable damage is being done.
Who and more importantly when is someone anywhere close to having any influence going to say so ?

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If I?d covered all the costs for 10 or so years I wouldn?t pander to fans either. Put yourself in their position and tell me you would.

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Originally Posted by scottg

The top 5 Clubs in Scotland are now streets ahead of The Rest in terms of financial clout, quality of player pool, fan base and what the match day experience brings those attending games.
They have turned almost every away game into a home fixture and pretty much left the rest of the clubs behind, the gulf has never been bigger.
Dundee are in my view getting further behind some of The Rest on a few fronts the reasons for that are varied and complex. The most obvious factor for me is the continued failure of the Club to have something for the supporters to shout about on the park. That has taken its toll, the supporters are weary, no other club of a comparable size in Scotland has gone so long without having any success.
Whilst other Clubs look at ways and means of helping themselves make the best of things Dundees approach appears to be unique. They have gone for the one size fits all silver bullet solution where the current owners are promising a brand new state of the art stadium at a cost the Football Club can afford. The all eggs in one basket plan is not going well, repeated set backs with little no progress made in around eight years or so.
Trying to keep this as short and to the point as I can ……there are lots of other commendable things going on at some of the other small clubs in Scotland, the supporters groups appear to be more active, communication is better, fans feel a closer affiliation to club and there are various stand alone initiatives that make the ordinary punter feel part of something they can associate with and feel proud of.
It is not too late to have a rethink in my view, continue on the path they are on and ther is a danger irreparable damage is being done.
Who and more importantly when is someone anywhere close to having any influence going to say so ?

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what teams do you have in the top 5?

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Originally Posted by ROMA84

what teams do you have in the top 5?

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Oh FFS

Here's a clue - none of them have 'United' as part of their name. Can you work it out now?

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Originally Posted by Deeranged

Oh FFS

Here's a clue - none of them have 'United' as part of their name. Can you work it out now?

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Top five belters.

I think Roma sneaks in.

Saying that he's probably in contention for top 1 😆

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Originally Posted by ROMA84

what teams do you have in the top 5?

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Glasgow
Edinburgh
Aberdeen

by a long way.

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Originally Posted by Deeranged

Oh FFS

Here's a clue - none of them have 'United' as part of their name. Can you work it out now?

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I never asked you.

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Originally Posted by ROMA84

I never asked you.

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Seeing that you were clearly struggling to understand what appears to normal people to be a very simple concept I answered on behalf of the group.

You know what to do if you're not happy with that don't you? Two words, second one's off?